| Show HUM FOR FOH THE ATH government official says prohibit tion will keep many Desi desirable rallia Imn grants away says the new law W 11 II make the negro worse n H s hab ts is as he V 11 II take the lead n de f ance of law and sy na ashington A high official ot of the immigration burea i 1 is authority toi for the statement that the prohibition movement in the south will seriously interfere with efforts to get grants sto to that section of the country it is none of my business he said although I 1 have been operating cooperating as tar far as possible with the imm gration bureaus of the states of South caro ma virginia and others so soon jb is the class ot of people being sought it iri the south find 0 ait oit it that pi kioh oh laws encumber their personal onal liberty they will refuse to go south and those now there will leave the german austrian swede finn and nearly all other classes of europeans will not go where they can not get beer besides that they re sent any interference with what the hall eat or drink believing these are matters of 0 personal liberty they do not hold the view that so light a drink as beer when taken in mode ate amounts and under circumstances to which they are accustomed is either a sin or crime people of the countries mentioned look down upon ghisi drinking in this countr as a moral weakness to wh ch eh americans should not be ad dieted and probably would not care what happened to the ardent spirits but they object to being deprived or beer pers nally I 1 a great ml tale tal e is being made in the south it these prohibition laws are arp being en acted to make the negro a sober cit izen the error will be d sc in a few years the negro will now be come an imbiber of the cheapest and most fiery grades of mean whisky and I 1 will venture the prediction that in prohibition states of the boutt crime will increase it la Is history that prohibition runs out the mild drinks like beer and brings in the worst of the ardent class the negro naturally goes with blind tigers and it will not be long before he will take the lead in defiance ot of law and hypocrisy he a R ill cop after the white man it is true when he sees prohibition laws defied he will pay less attention to other laws it is well known that in many por per eions of the south where prohibition prohibit iou is in force through local option the negro has turned to cocaine and drugs and has become go so worthless that he is a menace |
